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Marchwiel

"A parish in the Union of Wrexham, hundred of Bromfield, county of Denbigh; 2 miles (SE) from Wrexham, containing 553 inhabitants. ..... It is intersected by the road from Wrexham, which here branches off to Whitchurch and to Ellesmere, and consists of the townships of Marchwiel and Sontley, the former comprising 2691 acres, with a population of 466, and the latter, 585 acres, with a population of 87. The lands are enclosed and in a good state of cultivation; producing wheat, barley and oats; the prevailing timber is oak." [ A Topographical Dictionary of Wales, 1833 & 1849, Samuel Lewis]

The ancient parish consisted of the two townships of Marchwiel and Sontley.

Book of reference to the plan of the Parish of Marchwiel (Hundred of Bromfield) in the county of Denbigh : Major-General Sir Henry James, Director-General of the Ordnance Survey. London : Eyre & Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O., 1873.

Emery, Gordon. Marchwiel Chester : G Emery, 1999.

Rees, Cynthia. A history of the parish of Marchwiel Wrexham : Bridge Books, 1998.

Nonconformist Churches"Welsh Church Commission - County of Denbigh - The Statistics of the Nonconformist Churches for 1905"lists the following nonconformist places of worship in the Civilparish of Marchwiel :

The following Parish Registers have been deposited at the Denbighshire Record Office, Ruthin. They may be viewed on microfilm at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, at the A.N. Palmer Library, Wrexham, and at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. These microfilms are not available elsewhere.

Baptisms

Marriages

Burials

1653 - 1942

1666 - 1970

1662 - 1908

Clwyd FHS has published full transcriptions of the registers (complete with indexes) for the following years :

Baptisms

Marriages

Burials

1652 - 1812

1665 - 1812

1662 - 1812

Bishop's Transcripts

Bishop's Transcripts for the years shown below have been deposited in the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. Around the year 1951, most of the Bishop's Transcripts which had been deposited at that time were microfilmed by the LDS; and the films are available on request at Family History Centres of the LDS. The films may also be viewed at the Denbighshire and Flintshire Record Offices, and at the National Library of Wales. In general, the Bishop's Transcripts are less complete than the parish registers.

When Civil Registration was introduced (on 1 July 1837), the parish of Marchwiel was assigned to the No. 2 ("Malpas") sub-district of the Wrexham Registration District; which, initially, was co-extensive with the Wrexham poor law Union.

In the GRO indexes to civil registration, entries for Marchwiel are in the format :

Years 1837 - 1851: Wrexham XXVII. nnn

Years 1851 - 1930: Wrexham 11b. nnn

(GRO index references have no relevance at the local Superintendent Registrar's Office)

On Clwyd FHS's site there is a diagram showing parish names/positions with links to pages for the parish church

Kain, R.J.P., Oliver, R.R., Historic Parishes of England and Wales: an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata [computer file]. Colchester, Essex: History Data Service, UK Data Archive [distributor], 17 May 2001. SN: 4348. Here is a gazetteer/finding aid plus a set of overview maps to accurately identify the position of parishes within the county

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SJ358477 (Lat/Lon: 53.022708, -2.958597), Marchwiel which are provided by: